Life and Death in Palestine: Information gift for a Premier — Day 18

Britain’s “Jews for Justice for Palestinians” publish list of Israeli atrocities against Palestinians. But why the satirical title?

No 1670 Posted by fw, May 12, 2016

Thursday, May 12, 2016

Dear Premier Wynne,

Below is my information gift for you on this, Day 18, of my intended 19-day project to fill in some possible gaps in your knowledge base with respect to life and death in the Israeli Occupied Territories.

This campaign was launched in protest to your upcoming unconscionable trade mission to Israel, which will effectively legitimize seven decades of collective military brutality against Palestinians in the Occupied Territories.

Today’s gift is a repost, in its entirety, of a fact-based inventory of Israeli atrocities against Palestinians compiled by Britain’s “Jews for Justice for Palestinians” (JfJfP). It’s an incisive declaration. But the reason for its puzzling, satirical title — Palestinian suffering? Think of the Jews! — is not revealed until the very end.

Bless the Jews for Justice for Palestine.

The piece is also available online by clicking on the following linked title.

Let’s imagine that, on top of the expulsion, military occupation, and inhuman and illegal siege, these people suffered periodic massacres, the most recent of which killed more than 2,200 people, including 550 children, and destroyed or rendered uninhabitable fully 18,000 homes.

The upshot of Freedland’s wretched article is this: for half a century nothing has been done to put a stop to the brutal, immoral and illegal persecution of the Palestinians, and it’s time to do less.

Here is what Jonathan Freedland had to say about an ethnic cleansing that actually happened, and whose surviving victims are still struggling for a mite of justice: ‘I have long believed that Israel should be strong enough to admit the reality of 1948 [i.e. the mass expulsion of Palestinian civilians]—and to defend it all the same’. The ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians was ‘a horribly high moral price’ to pay for the establishment of a Jewish state—but it was also ‘a moral necessity’.

END OF ARTICLE — To read the article online, click on the above linked title…